Historically Thinking

We believe that when people think historically, they are engaging in a disciplined way of thinking about the world and its past. We believe it gives thinkers a knack for recognizing nonsense; and that it cultivates not only intellectual curiosity and rigo

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Episode 95: The Captive Sea

Posted January 23, 2019 • 00:56:04

For hundreds of years, people living on the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea enslaved one another. Moslems from North Africa captured Italians, French,...

Episode 94: The Information-Literate Citizen

Posted January 16, 2019 • 00:58:49

Today's guest is Jenny L. Presnell, a Librarian of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Miami University of Ohio. She’s the author of The Information-Literate...

Episode 93: Mortal Republic

Posted January 9, 2019 • 01:27:37

When the Greek general Pyrrhus encountered the Roman Republic for the first time, he was deeply confused. Having served with Alexander the Great, and...

Episode 92: Blood Letters

Posted January 2, 2019 • 01:15:04

In 1960, a poet and journalist named Lin Zhao was arrested by the Communist Party of China and sent to prison for re-education. Years before, she had...

Episode 40: A Happy Historically Nuanced Thanksgiving

Posted November 25, 2015 • 00:51:57

On a day of tradition (or maybe not; more about that in a bit), we brush the dust off an old HT tradition. Back in the day, to be honest, we used to...